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Flowers of Shanghai = Hai shang hua
Title
Flowers of Shanghai = Hai shang hua / presented by Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha, San san dian ying zhi zuo you xian gong si ; Songzhu zhu shi hui she ; Hou Xiaoxian ying xiang zhi zuo you xian gong si chu pin ; jian zhi, Yang Dengkui, Shishan Shangsan ; bian ju, Zhu Tianwen ; dao yan, Hou Xiaoxian = Flowers of Shanghai / presented by Shochiku Co., Ltd., 3H Productions ; a Hou Hsiao-Hsien film ; producers, Yang Denggui, Ichiyama Shozo ; screenplay by Chu Tien-wen ; directed by Hou Hsaio-Hsien.
海上花 / presented by 松竹株式会社, 三三電影製作有限公司 ; 侯孝賢映像製作有限公司出品 ; 監製, 楊登魁, 市山尚三 ; 編劇, 朱天文 ; 導演, 侯孝賢 = Flowers of Shanghai / presented by Shochiku Co., Ltd., 3H Productions ; a Hou Hsiao-Hsien film ; producers, Yang Denggui, Ichiyama Shozo ; screenplay by Chu Tien-wen ; directed by Hou Hsaio-Hsien.
ISBN
9781681438337
168143833X
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Medium
plastic
4 3/4 in.
stamping
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Based on "The Sing-song girls of Shanghai" by Han Ziyun.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Restored by the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival.
Special features: new introduction by critic Tony Rayns; new documentary "Beautified realism" by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Lee, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih; excerpts from a 2015 interview with Hou, recorded as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oral History Projects; trailer.
Director of photography, Mark Lee; music by Hanno Yoshihiro; edited by Liao Ching-sung.
Shanghainese and Cantonese dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Title and credits from English-subtitled screen.
Summary
The gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue and jealousies swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage.
Variant and related titles
Hai shang hua
Flowers of Shanghai
Hai shang hua (Motion picture)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Chinese
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2021
Series
The Criterion collection ; 1077
Credits
Director of photography, Mark Lee; music by Hanno Yoshihiro; edited by Liao Ching-sung.
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Monique Reis, Carina Lau Ka-ling, Jack Kao, Rebecca Pan, Wei Hsaio-hui, Fang Hsuan.
System details note
Blu-ray, wide screen (1.85:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
Unrated.
Videorecording number
CC3252BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Motion pictures.
Romance films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Motion pictures.
Also listed under
Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha, presenter.
San san dian ying zhi zuo you xian gong si, presenter.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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